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Rich Pauloo

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4 years of experience developing groundwater flow and contaminant transport models.

Highly experienced in

- R
- GIS

Experience with

- Python
- SQL
- Bash
- HTML/CSS/Javascript

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Source code: github.com/richpauloo/cv

Last updated on 2019-09-30.

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Rich Pauloo

I have developed groundwater flow and contaminant transport models, made pipelines that process and display environmental data from remote sensor networks in near-real time, created interactive dashboards that make sense of massive datasets, and built packages for R.

Currently searching for positions in government and industry where I can work on challenging, data-intensive issues facing California’s water future.

Education

University of California Berkeley

B.S., Integrative Biology

Berkeley, CA

2006 - 2011

Conflict Resolution minor

University of California Davis

Ph.D. Candidate, Hydrogeology

Davis, CA

2015 - 2020

  • Dissertation on developing regional scale groundwater quality management models.
  • NSF Fellow
  • Elected member of Graduate Student Assembly
  • Affiliate of the UC Davis Data Lab

Selected Research Experience

Graduate Student Researcher

Fogg Laboratory

University of California Davis

2015 - 2020

  • Developed methods to efficiently upscale contaminant transport in heterogeneous porous media.
  • Built tools to process and visualize real-time sensor data.

Data Science Researcher

Computational Institute for Geodynamics

University of California Davis

2019

Selected Professional Experience

Site Manager & Environmental Science Educator

NatureBridge

Yosemite National Park & the Marin Headlands

2012 - 2015

  • Coordinated with Operations to run a 200-student campus with 60 employees.
  • Served as primary liaison between the organization and clients.
  • Taught environmental science programs and designed curriculum.

Expedition Leader

National Geographic & Adventures Cross Country

Thailand

2015 - 2016

  • Coordinated all aspects of multi-week international travel.
  • Facilitated teambuilding and group dynamics.

Data Engineer

UC Water

University of California Davis

2018 - 2020

  • Constructed a data processing pipeline and web dashboard to stream real-time groundwater data via a wireless sensor network.

Grants and Awards

NSF-IGERT in Climate Change, Water, and Society

$111,000

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2015

NSF-GRFP Honorable Mention

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2016

2018 California Water Data Challenge (Statewide Competition)

$1,500

N/A

2018

NASA Data Visualization Competition (National Competition)

$1,400

N/A

2018

Big Data Hub Early Career Data Science Researcher Award

$1,000

N/A

2018

Selected Publications, Posters, and Talks

I regularly blog about data science, visualization, machine learning, and water issues in California on my blog

Assessing Impact of Outreach through Software Citation for Community Software in Geodynamics.

Computing in Science & Engineering. PP. 1-1. 10.1109/MCSE.2019.2940221.

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2019

Hwang, L. & Pauloo, R. & Carlen, J.

Domestic Well Vulnerability to Drought Duration and Unsustainable Groundwater Management in California’s Central Valley. (submitted)

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2019

Pauloo, R. & Dahlke, H. & Escriva-Bou, A. & Fencl, A. &H. Guillon & Fogg, G.E.

Groundwater Development Induced Basin Closure: An Unrecognized Threat to Water Quality Sustainability. (in preparation)

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2019

Pauloo, R. & Guo, Z. & Fogg G.E.

Show me the data.

California Water Data Summit. Davis, CA

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2019

Pauloo, R.

An Overview of Domestic Well Data in California’s Central Valley: Opportunities for Informed Risk Assessment.

California Environmental Protection Agency. Sacramento, CA

N/A

2019

Pauloo, R. & Fogg, G.E. & Escriva-Bou, A. & Fencl, A. & Guillon, H.

Upscaling Regional, 3D, Non-Fickian Solute Transport with 2D Equivalent Models.

American Geophysical Union. #H43I-2582. Washington, DC

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2018

Pauloo, R. & Fogg, G.E. & Guo, Z. & Henri, C.V.

Basin Scale Groundwater Quality Management Modeling: Methods to Upscale the Advection Dispersion Equation.

American Geophysical Union. #H51G-1360. New Orleans, LA

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2017

Pauloo, R. & Fogg, G.E. & Guo, Z. & Henri, C.V.